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 Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:12 pm Post subject: There's money in them thar hills... |
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Every month or so I take our accumulated beer bottles to the local recycling depot - and get a few dollars in return (good old CA!). This time I also dropped off the old radiator from the van - to my surprise they weighed it and presented me with a cheque for $17.71! An unexpected and welcome little bonus. 
So those in CA at least - it can be worth taking your junk bits to the recycling rather than just dropping them in the wheelie bin. 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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$17 ?!?
Wow, you get way better rates than I do! My old LP tank only earned me about $2.50.
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bluebus86
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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Every month or so I take our accumulated beer bottles to the local recycling depot - and get a few dollars in return (good old CA!). This time I also dropped off the old radiator from the van - to my surprise they weighed it and presented me with a cheque for $17.71! An unexpected and welcome little bonus.
So those in CA at least - it can be worth taking your junk bits to the recycling rather than just dropping them in the wheelie bin. |
not worth my time to get the mandatory deposit back, I just toss out the deposit containers, and never in the recycling bin, they go straight to land fill, after all I paid the sin tax already, if I dont get the money back, screw it, to the land fill it goes. non mandatory deposit conatainers I put in the recycling bin.
before the mandtory deposit racket was implimented, I recycled all the containers in my recycling trash bin, easy, convienent, and no cost to me. I wont stand inline for a dollar back in a grocery store credit, mingling with homeless people who yell at themselves, just to collect the deposit voucher. the california recycling program is a rotten racket.
went to san fran to see the America Cup boat race. looked all over on the wharf for a drinking fountain, none to be seen. plenty of vendors selling food, I asked if they could direct me to a drinking fountain. was told, no, they did not install any public fountains for this event, but did have a public water dispenser for filling cups, he gave me a free cup, and told me to be sure to toss the used cup in the recycling bin when done as that is what the city wanted done. I told him it would be more conservative of resources had they installed a drinking fountain, no cup needed at all. he replied that the city did not want that, that the city insisted that disposable cups be used instead, and that he was required to remind users to recycle the cup, part of a green education effort! I told him that was stupid, and wasteful, and that Id toss the cup in the trash out of protest. he said "you would do that would you?" I said "watch me", finished my drink and tossed it in the trash. screw their social enginnering, causes more waste than it stops. bunch of loons!
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fxr
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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It's probably the copper/brass content that helped the rate.
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bluebus86
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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$17 ?!?
Wow, you get way better rates than I do! My old LP tank only earned me about $2.50. |
lp tanks are often steel, radiators value was in either the aluminum or copper (vw used either type) the price of steel is less than copper or aluminium.
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Merian
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| It's probably the copper/brass content that helped the rate. |
or the Al, which is also worth a fair amount
the more interesting question is how much of the wt. was just worthless white corrosion
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| It's probably the copper/brass content that helped the rate. |
No doubt. It wouldn't be worth it in terms of my time but I pass the recycling place on my way to work so it couldn't be more convenient. I think I got 70c for my old microwave.
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bluebus86
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| fxr wrote: |
| It's probably the copper/brass content that helped the rate. |
No doubt. It wouldn't be worth it in terms of my time but I pass the recycling place on my way to work so it couldn't be more convenient. I think I got 70c for my old microwave. |
$70 if it had been a macrowave!
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fxr
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| fxr wrote: |
| It's probably the copper/brass content that helped the rate. |
or the Al, which is also worth a fair amount
the more interesting question is how much of the wt. was just worthless white corrosion |
Amazingly not very much. All channels were clear, with a light 'frosting' of corrosion on the ends. No sludge at all. Not bad after 32 years and 215,000 miles, the POs must have been good about what they filled the system with. (grammar?)
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| fxr wrote: |
Every month or so I take our accumulated beer bottles to the local recycling depot - and get a few dollars in return (good old CA!). This time I also dropped off the old radiator from the van - to my surprise they weighed it and presented me with a cheque for $17.71! An unexpected and welcome little bonus.
So those in CA at least - it can be worth taking your junk bits to the recycling rather than just dropping them in the wheelie bin. |
not worth my time to get the mandatory deposit back, I just toss out the deposit containers, and never in the recycling bin, they go straight to land fill, after all I paid the sin tax already, if I dont get the money back, screw it, to the land fill it goes. non mandatory deposit conatainers I put in the recycling bin.
before the mandtory deposit racket was implimented, I recycled all the containers in my recycling trash bin, easy, convienent, and no cost to me. I wont stand inline for a dollar back in a grocery store credit, mingling with homeless people who yell at themselves, just to collect the deposit voucher. the california recycling program is a rotten racket.
went to san fran to see the America Cup boat race. looked all over on the wharf for a drinking fountain, none to be seen. plenty of vendors selling food, I asked if they could direct me to a drinking fountain. was told, no, they did not install any public fountains for this event, but did have a public water dispenser for filling cups, he gave me a free cup, and told me to be sure to toss the used cup in the recycling bin when done as that is what the city wanted done. I told him it would be more conservative of resources had they installed a drinking fountain, no cup needed at all. he replied that the city did not want that, that the city insisted that disposable cups be used instead, and that he was required to remind users to recycle the cup, part of a green education effort! I told him that was stupid, and wasteful, and that Id toss the cup in the trash out of protest. he said "you would do that would you?" I said "watch me", finished my drink and tossed it in the trash. screw their social enginnering, causes more waste than it stops. bunch of loons! |
I live on an island. We do not have the luxury of landfills in the desert. We send our waste paper to the power plant to be burned and create electricity. We recycle green waste into mulch and sell it to homeowners and farmers. We recycled glass bottles and steel and aluminum cans long before there was a HI5 (5˘ deposit in Hawaii). My house has no heater or AC. The lanai windows have only screen. The air is clean, the skies are blue, the clouds are white, the water is untreated, the wind blows gently, and the people are friendly.
Many of us think of the earth as an island.
Aloha
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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Many of us think of the earth as an island.
Aloha
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To quote my old college prof, "there is no 'away'".
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| Tom Powell wrote: |
Many of us think of the earth as an island.
Aloha
tp |
To quote my old college prof, "there is no 'away'". |
I'm away from California. 
But I do keep a '69 camper there for ski trips and visiting friends.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| went to san fran to see the America Cup boat race. ... the city insisted that disposable cups be used, ... part of a green education effort! I told him that was stupid, and wasteful, and that Id toss the cup in the trash out of protest. ... finished my drink and tossed it in the trash. screw their social enginnering, causes more waste than it stops. bunch of loons! |
Yup! The last time I went to the Submarine Races I needed to use the privy, but upon entering I saw a sign instructing me to wash my hands afterward. “Phooey!” says I, and I went back out and dropped a deuce right on the beach. A Protest Poop.
Didn’t wash my hands, neither!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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Hahah, that's the Spirit!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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Hilarious!
That's a good note to end my work week on. Have a great weekend fellas!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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| went to san fran to see the America Cup boat race. ... the city insisted that disposable cups be used, ... part of a green education effort! I told him that was stupid, and wasteful, and that Id toss the cup in the trash out of protest. ... finished my drink and tossed it in the trash. screw their social enginnering, causes more waste than it stops. bunch of loons! |
Yup! The last time I went to the Submarine Races I needed to use the privy, but upon entering I saw a sign instructing me to wash my hands afterward. “Phooey!” says I, and I went back out and dropped a deuce right on the beach. A Protest Poop.
Didn’t wash my hands, neither!
That’ll learn ‘em! |
the san francisco way to educate the public on hand washing would be to cover the
privy door knob in poop on purpose to get your hands dirty, then remind you that since the knob is purposely covered in poop you should wash your hands.
Id then shake the hand and pat the back of the civil servent who came up with this hand washing education plan prior to washing my hands, a protest shake and pat.
the social engineers that create more waste simply to educate people about recycling waste are looney.
next they will be spreading the flu virus to promote getting a flu vaccine, burn tires in the open air to promote clean air awareness, set arson home fires to promote replacing smoke detector batteries yearly, what else? 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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<<<lp tanks are often steel, radiator value was in either the aluminum or copper (vw used either type) the price of steel is less than copper or aluminium.>>>
Older radiators had brass tanks, copper cores.
More $$$$
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: There's money in them thar hills... |
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I think all trash should be "towed in the ocean out beyond the environment". this news interview explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lBiJIzEPk
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